The future of Diskette bootstraps
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Mon May 17 22:20:35 UTC 2004
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Guy Fraser wrote:
> david wrote:
>
> > One of my systems does not support CD-ROM boostrap. FC1 provided a
> > bootstrap diskette which solved the problem, and let me install from
> > the network or from CDROM, both of which worked for me.
> >
> > Is this capability going to be maintained in future version of Fedora?
> >
> > If not, is there some option that would work?
pxe boot is fastest if your ethernet card/bios has support for it.
failing that these two options will work.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg02978.html
> > David Kurn
>
> I would presume that boot floppies should be around for a little
> while longer but floppies are too small to be used much longer.
>
> I have been noticing more and more computers being sold that don't
> come with floppy drives anymore. I'm not just talking about Mac's
> either. We have a bunch of little machines we use for single
> purpose servers, and they don't come with a floppy or CD, so we
> hookup a CD to get the install started and do a network install.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
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